Celebrity gossip blog Perezhilton.com dubs itself “Hollywood’s Most Hated Web Site”. The site is loaded with photos and descriptions of celebrities acting dumb and looking bad. Perez’ catty remarks and the crude captions he adds to most of the photos certainly give the site a unique flavor. The guy just loves to dig up and dish dirt on the rich and famous and it seems to have worked out very well for him. At least it has if legal fees … Continue reading
I’ve added the entertainment cable and satellite television channel, VH1’s mobile site wap.vh1.com to the WapReview directory. It’s a complete mobile entertainment portal with news, gossip, photos, videos, contests and polls. The photo selection is particularly extensive with hundreds of photos organized into “FlipBooks” – slide shows based on a theme like “Reality Girls Gone Bad” or “Hottest Hunks Under 25“. VH1’s video section contains around 20 free clips in 176×144 H.263 format, which is compatible with almost any phone. … Continue reading
One of AOL’s few recent success, TMZ is the second most popular celebrity news and gossip blog on the web (after PerezHilton.com) according to Alexa. As reported by MocoNews, TMZ now has a mobile edition. I’m not exactlly a big celebrity follower but was I impressed by TMZ mobile. The site features the text and images of the last 20 items 0n TMZ’s PC site in a mobile format that should work on almost any phone. Images are sized to … Continue reading
Want to follow tonight’s 80th annual Academy Awards but won’t be near a TV or PC? Here are three sites featuring Oscar content including a couple with live updates during the broadcast. The official Oscars site at m.oscar.com looks great and has lots of media; hundreds of photos including shots of winners on last year’s Red Carpet, photos of this year’s nominees and movie posters from all the Best Picture winners since 1950. And the site has video trailers from … Continue reading
International cable and satellite television network Discovery has a mini mobile web portal at discoverymobile.com with links to separate sites for the Discovery Channel and some of the other channels it owns, The Learning Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Health and Planet Green. The individual sites have TV schedules and other features for each channel. I’ve added the following Discovery sites to the WapReview directory and Yeswap portal in the Entertainment/TV folder. Discovery Channel (discoverychannel.mlogic.mobi) The featured shows are Myth Busters, … Continue reading
Microsoft has added a new feature to the movie listings on MSN Mobile. You can buy tickets to movies right from the mobile web page. It only works with certain theaters and the actual ticketing is handled by MovieTickets.com, which I covered recently. Daring move by Microsoft given that this goes around carrier billing systems and mobile MSN is featured on most of the US carrier decks. Well maybe not so daring, I just followed the MSN link on the … Continue reading
I found a couple of nicely done mobile sites from ELLE and ELLE girl magazines on the Boost Mobile portal. They are on public URLs so they are accessible from phones on any carrier. ELLE‘s (boost.elle.com/) a leading women’s fashion and entertainment magazine. The ELLE mobile site features book reviews, short articles on fashion trends, shopping, health and beauty along with entertainer profiles and interviews. There are also many photos on the site but only one per page so as … Continue reading
RHPS Mobile: (rockyhorror.com/mobile) That’s the Rocky Horror Picture Show, of course. The site lists regular showings of the film in the US and beyond. There’s also a list of the props that fans bring to RHPS screenings and a cue sheet listing when to deploy each prop. RHPS rockyhorror.com/mobile xhtml-mp Content Usability